Offensive lineman Brandon Kennedy is headed to Tennessee for the 2018-19 season and will enroll in the university's second summer session classes starting in July.

According to Volquest.com, citing unidentified sources, the Alabama graduate transfer is already in Knoxville. He apparently picked the Vols over Auburn. The report notes that part of Kennedy's decision was the fact that Tennessee has a grad school program that Alabama doesn't offer.

Kennedy, the 6-3, 300-pound redshirt sophomore, has two seasons of eligibility remaining to play for the Vols and is expected to be a contender for a starting position. He is the third graduate transfer Tennessee has added to its program.

The report comes shortly after the SEC changed its rules regarding graduate transfers within the conference earlier this month. Under the new rule, Kennedy will no longer have to be granted a waiver from the conference to be eligible to play this season.

Previously, if a player transferred from one SEC school to another, they would have to sit out a season, unless a waiver was granted even if they had earned their degree.

Prior to the rule being passed, Alabama reportedly blocked Kennedy from transferring.

"I think we should change the rule," Alabama coach Nick Saban said during the spring meetings in Destin, Fla. "If we agree in the SEC at these meetings that we’re going to have free agency in our league and everyone can go wherever they want to go when they graduate, that’s what’s best for the game, then I think that’s what we should do. Then Brandon Kennedy can go wherever he wants to go. But if we don’t do that, why is it on me?”

Kennedy, who missed most of the 2017 season with a leg injury, served as Alabama's backup center this spring.